Leiobunum vittatum

Common Daddy long legs

Timulla grotei?

Very fast moving wasp that looks like an ant.  Could only get this one picture before Bennett came over to "help" and ran through the weed the insect was on.  Unfortunately for little Bennett he was then strung by this guy.

Timulla sp.

I am fairly sure this is T. grotei based on this and this and this.  I guess if I am going to keep doing this I need something better than my iphone and should probably capture and freeze he insects for closer examination.  My only hesitation that this isn't T. grotei is that it appears to have 2 full white lines across it's abdomen instead one 1, but hat could be because of out of focus and/or because they run fast.

Taken late July Wheaton, IL

Megarhyssa macrurus

Parasitic wasp.

Others in Wheaton have found also!

Danaus plexippus

Monarch butterfly on day of release 6/9/12  Good site for differences in butterflies that mimic the monarch

7/7/12 Hopefully these are the same omes from the release a month prior!

Zale lunata

Moths are really hard to ID.  There are so many.  It took awhile but fortunately Fermilab is very close so any there could be here too.  Thus it's a great resource and how I found this moth.

Fermilab resource  

More info

2nd one hiding in same spot different corner of shed

Neoregelia mosquito

Larvae stage in a Neoregelia Jeannie purchased from a grower near San Diego.  Wyeomyia vanduzeei and Wyeomyia mitchellii both possibilities.  Aedes albopictus also possible. Culex? Culex quinquefasciatus

Could be either a foreign import that was picked up in San Diego, a San Diego mosquito, or even a native.  To me the abdomen looks too big and the head too small of any of these.  They moved around like they had a suction head that was shooting in and out with movements more like a worm.

Choose these species based on this and this.  Could be larvae of many I guess.  Most likely Aedes albopictus if mosquito larvae.

Close up

Uresiphita reversalis

Caterpillar stage on False Indigo